My goals for Us as we Journey through this Course Together are to:
Share Assessment and Evaluation procedures in this Online course Environment.
Help you understand the different ways you will be evaluated within this course.
Be accountable to you!
Help you be Successful!
Library as Learning Commons
Getting Started:
The following information is posted to help you understand how Assessment and Evaluation works within this Online course environment.
If You Are On Twitter..
If you are not already on twitter, I want to suggest possibly getting one! We can use it to share great work and engage in Professional Learning Networks with this form of social media. We can use the hashtag #etfoTL
Throughout this course you will have the opportunity to engage in different forms of assessment throughout our Learning Experiences, to inform your learning and progress within this course.
Diagnostic Assessment:
To determine strengths, weaknesses, skills and prior knowledge of learners before instruction begins
This practice will enable the Instructor to be able to adjust their instructional strategies appropriately before instruction begins, in order to meet the needs of all students. Allows for appropriate Differentiated Instruction Choices.
Examples: Include the e-tivities in each 'Learning Experience' (LE) that will Activate prior learning, and gets you thinking about Key Learning Goals within each Learning Experience module.
Formative Assessment:
This will regularly occur throughout the Learning Experiences of the Course. You will not be graded, but this is effective feedback that you can use to help inform your teaching practice.
Examples: Includes the e-tivities that help you to 'Aquire' and Apply knowledge as we work through the LE's.
Summative Assessment:
Course Instructor Assessment Feedback charts that are evaluative in nature and are usually given at the end of a module. You will find this Feedback submitted at the end of each Learning Experience to your Dropbox. You will find Dropbox located in your Course Menu.
A final task to measure the progress of candidates. Diagnostic and Formative Assessments will greatly inform our choices and how we bring together our final culminating tasks for each e-tivity.
Culminating tasks that bring together all of the information from the module: These can include, but are not limited to: Prezi, Powerpoint, Keynote, Explain Everything, Animoto, Sliderocket, Glogster, Wiki, and the list can go on.
The following Chart is created by, and Copyright of ETFO and will hopefully serve as guiding points to help you understand more clearly what kinds of Summative feedback you will receive. This will help inform you as you participate and engage in your learning within the course as well:
Criteria
Recommended
Not Recommended
Attends in accordance with course schedule
Meets time commitments of 125 hours.
Does not meet the time commitment of 125 hours.
Contributes to online discussions & activities
Participates fully in group discussions, activities and projects; responds to and supports peers.
Seldom interacts with other members of the group or responds to peers.
Completes all course learning experiences, meeting all of the criteria outlined, before or on the due date
Expectations for course learning experiences are met or exceeded.
Expectations for course learning experiences are not met.
Meets overall course expectations (see course outline for expectations)
The course expectations are met or exceeded.
The course expectations are not met.
Assessment According to Ontario's Growing Success Document:
Educators in Ontario are to engage in 3 types of Assessment of learners: Assessment for Learning, Assessment As Learning & Assessment of Learning. The following section will explain how these forms of Assessment will be used within this course, Librarianship Part I.
Assessment for Learning:
Seeking and interpreting the evidence! As your Instructor, I will use Diagnostic data right from our Introductions, to understand where you are starting from, working from, where you need to go, how best to get there. This is a very fluid process, and based on individual needs.
Assessment as Learning:
This is essentially the Formative Assessment that will take place in the form of ongoing peer feedback, self-assessment, and ongoing instructor feedback. This is to help improve your learning, and enables all candidates to monitor progress!
Assessment of Learning:
This is the assessment that essentially becomes part of the public record: whether or not the candidate is Recommended to obtain the Librarianship Part I qualification. You will receive final feedback in the form of written statements about how you have done in the LE, and what you have learned.
The Following Link is an Overview of Assessment from the EduGains Website.
Please Also Check Out this YouTube Video explaining the Different Forms of Assessment:
This Section will Re-Outline the Assessment Framework as Outlined by ETFO-AQ.
Please note that this is also available in the Content Section of our Online Course.
Overall Assessment Framework from: ETFO
Criteria
Recommended
Not Recommended
Attends in accordance with course schedule
Meets time commitments of 125 hours.
Does not meet the time commitment of 125 hours.
Contributes to online discussions & activities
Participates fully in group discussions, activities and projects; responds to and supports peers.
Seldom interacts with other members of the group or responds to peers.
Completes all course learning experiences, meeting all of the criteria outlined, before or on the due date
Expectations for course learning experiences are met or exceeded.
Expectations for course learning experiences are not met.
Meets overall course expectations (see course outline for expectations)
The course expectations are met or exceeded.
The course expectations are not met.
Participation in Librarianship Part I as outlined by ETFO-AQ:
Candidates are expected to attend and actively participate in each learning experience.
Candidates in the course are expected to work cooperatively by sharing experiences, knowledge, ideas and resources and by providing support to each other during online discussions.
Awareness and implementation of the Standards of Practice.
Criteria
Recommended
Not Recommended
Contribution class discussions and activities
Participates fully in group discussions, activities and projects; listens to and supports peers.
Seldom interacts with other members of the group or class peers.
Participation and motivation
Candidates in the course are expected to work cooperatively by sharing experiences, knowledge, ideas and resources and by providing support to each other during online discussions.
Does not meet expectations in course learning experiences and group activities.
Responding to feedback
Seeks feedback and accepts feedback positively.
Accepts feedback negatively.
Aware of and implements the Standards of Practice
Regularly implements the Standards of Practice
Is not aware of the Standards of Practice.
Does not implement the Standards of practice.
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The following is a list of the Due Dates for our Learning Experiences (Modules):
Due dates:
LE 1: Monday June 30th to Wednesday July 9th, 2014
LE 2: July 9th-Wednesday July 16th
LE 3: Wednesday July 16th-Wednesday July 23rd
LE 4: Wednesday July 23rd-Friday August 1st—courses end.
Welcome to Librarianship Part 1!
Please take a few moments to read through the following information I have put together for you.Welcome Letter!
My goals for Us as we Journey through this Course Together are to:
Library as Learning Commons
Getting Started:
If You Are On Twitter..
If you are not already on twitter, I want to suggest possibly getting one! We can use it to share great work and engage in Professional Learning Networks with this form of social media. We can use the hashtag #etfoTL
Tweets by @Bigideasinedu
Assessment in this Course:
Throughout this course you will have the opportunity to engage in different forms of assessment throughout our Learning Experiences, to inform your learning and progress within this course.
Diagnostic Assessment:
- To determine strengths, weaknesses, skills and prior knowledge of learners before instruction begins
- This practice will enable the Instructor to be able to adjust their instructional strategies appropriately before instruction begins, in order to meet the needs of all students. Allows for appropriate Differentiated Instruction Choices.
- Examples: Include the e-tivities in each 'Learning Experience' (LE) that will Activate prior learning, and gets you thinking about Key Learning Goals within each Learning Experience module.
Formative Assessment:Summative Assessment:
The following Chart is created by, and Copyright of ETFO and will hopefully serve as guiding points to help you understand more clearly what kinds of Summative feedback you will receive. This will help inform you as you participate and engage in your learning within the course as well:
Assessment According to Ontario's Growing Success Document:
Educators in Ontario are to engage in 3 types of Assessment of learners: Assessment for Learning, Assessment As Learning & Assessment of Learning. The following section will explain how these forms of Assessment will be used within this course, Librarianship Part I.
Assessment for Learning:
Assessment as Learning:
Assessment of Learning:
The Following Link is an Overview of Assessment from the EduGains Website.
eLearning Module: Assessment For, As, & Of Learning from Growing Success
Please Also Check Out this YouTube Video explaining the Different Forms of Assessment:
This Section will Re-Outline the Assessment Framework as Outlined by ETFO-AQ.
Please note that this is also available in the Content Section of our Online Course.
Overall Assessment Framework from: ETFO
Participation in Librarianship Part I as outlined by ETFO-AQ:
- Is not aware of the Standards of Practice.
- Does not implement the Standards of practice.
*The following is a list of the Due Dates for our Learning Experiences (Modules):
Due dates:
LE 1: Monday June 30th to Wednesday July 9th, 2014
LE 2: July 9th-Wednesday July 16th
LE 3: Wednesday July 16th-Wednesday July 23rd
LE 4: Wednesday July 23rd-Friday August 1st—courses end.
LiveBinders Link to Great Library Resources!
LiveBinders: Resources for the Learning Commons
Discussion Area:
Please do not hesitate to email me at any point during the course! I will answer you within 24 hours, typically well before that!
I really look forward to learning with you all this term!
Deborah McCallum
debbie.mccallum@learn.etfo-aq.ca